Saturday, 27 August 2016

No to Sanctions! No to War!

By
New Worker correspondent

Solidarity activists were out in force on
Tuesday 23rd August, scoring a double-whammy with afternoon protest pickets outside both
the puppet south Korean embassy in Westminster and the centre of US imperialism
in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square.

outside the puppet south Korean embassy

New Communist Party (NCP) leader Andy
Brooks and other London comrades joined Korean Friendship activists at both
pickets called by the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) to protest against
the current US war-games in occupied south Korea and to denounce the recent
wave of arrests of trade union militants by the puppet regime in Seoul.

Dermot Hudson, UK KFA chair, took the mike
to denounce US imperialism and its local south Korean lackeys for ratcheting up
tension on the Korean peninsula and threatening world peace with the deployment
of THAAD [Terminal
High Altitude Area Defence] missiles that clearly threatened the
security of Russia and People’s China.

and then to Grosvenor Square

After an hour outside the south Korean
embassy the picket moved on to the West End to continue the demonstration
outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.A number of passers-by joined in discussions with the pickets and took
photos of the banners – and one Arab tourist from the Gulf joined the
protesters in solidarity with their progressive demands!